From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. This report by the Mississippi Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights describes the committee's procedures and lists its members, but it focuses mainly on the allegations of...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Next door to the "State of La. Treasurer's Office," Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards is building a "State Fiscal Advisory Committee" building, smaller but in other respects...

Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 18, 1972 with Ms. Ruby Magee at College Hall at the University of Southern Mississippi. Magee was born in 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in history and political science from...

From the Tatum Family Business Records. A letter from Winthrop Aldrich, chairman of the National Advisory Committees for the World's Fair of 1940 in New York, to W. O. Tatum. The letter regards thanking Tatum for his cooperation in the 1939 World's...

From the Tatum Family Business Records. A letter from George Champion of Chase National Bank (New York) to W. O. Tatum. The letter regards Champion suggesting Tatum's name to Grover Whalen. Whalen asked Champion to suggest names of some prominent...

From the Tatum Family Business Records. A letter from Thomas Donovan, director of the Division of Advisory Committees for the New York World's Fair 1939, to W. O. Tatum. The letter regards Donovan replying to Tatum's letter to Grover Whalen on May...

From the Tatum Family Business Records. A letter from Thomas Donovan, director of the Division of Advisory Committees for the New York World's Fair 1939, to W. O. Tatum. The letter regards a reply to Tatum's inquiry about the National Advisory...

From the Tatum Family Business Records. A letter from W. O. Tatum to Thomas Donovan, Director of the Division of Advisory Committees, New York World's Fair 1939. The letter regards Tatum accepting the invitation to serve on the National Advisory...

From the Tatum Family Business Records. A letter from W. O. Tatum to Grover Whalen. The letter regards a response from Tatum about Whalen asking him to serve as a member of the National Advisory Committee of the New York World's Fair 1939. Tatum...

From the Tatum Family Business Records. A letter from W. O. Tatum to Grover Whalen of the New York World's Fair 1939. The letter regards Tatum asking what would be expected from him if he accepts the invitation to serve on the National Advisory...

From the Tatum Family Business Records. A letter from Gerald Wendt, director of the National Advisory Committees to the World's Fair of 1940 in New York, to the members of the National Advisory Committees. The letter regards an invitation to the...

From the Tatum Family Business Records. A letter from Grover Whalen to W.O. Tatum. The letter regards an invitation for Tatum to serve as a member of the National Advisory Committee of the New York World's Fair 1939 Incorporated for the State of...

From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Typewritten letter from Anne Braden to Victoria Jackson Gray (Adams), dated April 7, 1966, in which Braden requests permission to nominate Gray to the board of directors of the Southern Conference...

From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. The letter from Samuel J. Simmons to Rabbi Ben-Ami is typed on United States Commission on Civil Rights letterhead. The letter notifies Rabbi Ben-Ami of his appointment to the Mississippi Advisory Committee...

From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. This document lists names, addresses and phone numbers of the members of the 1964 Mississippi Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Details for some members are included, such...

A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...

A collection of ten interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...